The older I get, the more I realize that my parents are intelligent. When I was twelve, I thought they knew so little about life… and then, when I turned twenty-one, they suddenly knew everything. Perhaps, could it be that I was a know-it-all when I was twelve and realized quickly how little I knew once I was grown? Sometimes it takes life experience to realize how little we really know – and that only comes with the passage of time and experience-building. For example, when I was a teenager and long before I was married, I knew a ton about marriage – or, at least I thought I did. After … [Read more...]

In the year 1950, a film was made by Coronet Instructional Films on how a couple can realize how to tell if they are ready for marriage. There are many good conversation topics in here to work through as a couple and it's amazing how much they had right back then (though, I didn't agree with the length of engagement chart... as long as the couple has known each other and been around each other for at least a year, an extra year for engagement is normally plenty). The main male lead states, "I guess you might say, we're engaged to be engaged!" I couldn't have said it better myself. Even back … [Read more...]